(Arnolds Park)– COVID-19 will NOT prevent one longstanding event from taking place this year in the Iowa Great Lakes. The Okoboji Bible and Missionary Conference gets underway August 2nd and runs through August 7th on the tabernacle grounds in Arnolds Park. Jon Pausley, Executive Director of Okoboji Bible Conference Ministries tells KUOO news the event this year will have some changes, though…
“We had to let go of all of our normal children and youth programming due to the COVID-19 and some of the regulations that were in place, but we still have all of our morning gatherings through the weekdays, Monday through Friday at 9:00 for our morning bible hour; 10:30 for three adult community options and at 7:15 pm every night for our worship and service here at the Tabernacle at our grounds in Arnolds Park. One of the highlights, though, is on Sunday night, August 2nd, at 7:15 pm we are having “Sidewalk Profits” in concert down at Preservation Plaza in Arnolds Park there on the green space. We invite people to bring their lawn chair down and join us for a concert outside. “Sidewalk Profits” really just recently put out a new release that has gone number one on the charts there for Christian music in the area, so we’re excited to have them. The timing worked out well and this is actually going to be there first live show in quite awhile. They’ve done quite a bit of online work recently but they’re excited to get here and actually play live for an audience.”
Pausley says the conference will also feature a number of keynote speakers again this year…
“This year we have Juan Hernandez who’s joining in our morning bible hour. He’s a professor from Bethel University up in the Twin Cities and he is really a new testament scholar on The Book of Revelation and he is speaking through that book. We also have coming this year Laurel Bunker who’s also from the Twin Cities and kind of a broad representation from the Twin Cities and Todd Merritt who just recently retired from Eagle Brook Church up in the Twin Cities as their senior pastor, a large church up there, just a real stellar communicator will be with us on Thursday and Friday nights conference this year, and we’re having Skye Jethani who’s a author and podcaster and speaker and he’ll be with us on Sunday morning and Friday night.”
Pausley adds quite a few of the events will be held outdoors and that they’ll have the various public health precautions in place.
Pausley says the conference is non-denominational and that everyone is invited to the various events.
More information can be found at Okoboji Conference-dot-org.
